This is my syrian hamster. His name is Clark, he’s 1 year and 4 months old, and He lives in a 120/50cm fish tank.
Recently Clark started to lose his hair, mostly on both sides of his body where his scent glands are. And it’s getting worse and worse.
He seems like he’s feeling great though. But it is very concerning.
I took him to a vet that didn’t seem to know ANYTHING about hamsters. He thought that his scent glands on both sides on his body were tumors and suggested to remove them in surgery.
Obviously I haven’t spoken to that ‘vet’ ever again.
Then I took him to an exotic pet vet place and they seemed to know more about hamsters than the previous vet. But they couldn’t tell what’s the reason for his fur loss. They did some tests on him.
And they checked other things, like his scent glands, and they did a fungus test (I got the results a few days later, and it was negative).
They took some hair from bald areas on his body and looked at it in a microscope, and they said that it looks like the hair is like.. broken/torn, and didn’t seem to fall out of the root. So they said that he might be rubbing his body on things in his cage, and suggested to take everything that isn’t smooth out of the cage for 3 weeks and see if his hair grows back.
And i’ve never seen him rub his body on anything, so I kinda knew it wasn’t gonna work, but I did it anyways. And I actually replaced everything in his cage ‘cause I was scared that it might be mites or something. Even though I spot clean it regularly and clean it every month and a half.
Anyways, his balding is getting worse!
I don’t know what to do
(I don’t care what he looks like, I just wanna know if he’s healthy and i’m worried about him).
